King's College, London

UK

Professor John Taylor has been Professor Emeritus at the
Department of Mathematics since 1996. He has had a distinguished career
in neural nets, and is now engaged in neural modelling of higher order
cognitive processes including consciousness and mulitmodular nets for
action, emotion and early processing. He has published over 450
scientific papers, authored 12 books and edited 13 others including The
Promise of Neural Networks (Springer 1993), Mathematical Approaches to
Neural Networks (Editor, Elsevier, 1994) and The Race for Consciousness
(MIT Press, 1999). He is currently involved in two EU funded projects
under the IST 5th Framework – ORESTEIA (as part of the Disappearing
Computer Initiative) and ERMIS.